The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

This beautiful collection is based on the iconic 1623 First Folio: the original Complete Works lovingly assembled by Shakespeares fellow actors, and the version preferred by many actors and directors today. Along an excellent introduction and short essays, this collection includes a range of features such as on-page notes explaining unfamiliar terms, plot summaries and additional context.

A stunning new edition of the bestselling Complete Works of Shakespeare from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Combining exemplary textual scholarship with beautiful design, this modern edition is based on the iconic 1623 First Folio: the version preferred by many actors and directors today. Featuring new colour photographs of a vibrant range of RSC productions, a foreword from RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran, updated introductions and new references to staging choices in over 100 RSC productions, this highly collectable edition presents Shakespeare's plays as they were originally intended: as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed on stage.

Preface to Shakespeare: A Second Edition, Jonathan
Bate
The First Folio after 400 years
The 'Second Folio' of the RSC Shakespeare
General Introduction, Jonathan Bate
Shakespeare our Perennial Contemporary
Shakespeare's Debut: The 'Upstart Crow'
The Back Story: Shakespeare of Stratford
The Playhouses
Plague and Poetry
The Lord Chamberlain's Man
The Ensemble at Work
Dangerous Matter: Politics and Religion
The King's Man
Cult and Heresy
The Great Feast of Languages
The First Folio Restored
User's Guide
Preliminary pages of the First Folio
Foreword, Greg Doran, Artistic Director Emeritus, Royal Shakespeare
Company
PLATES
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: COMPLETE WORKS with
Introductions and Key Facts, Jonathan Bate
COMEDIES
The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
The Comedy of Errors
Much Ado about Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
As You Like It
The Taming of the Shrew
All's Well that Ends Well
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The Winter's Tale
HISTORIES
The Life and Death of King John
The Life and Death of King Richard the Second
The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death
of Henry surnamed Hotspur
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, containing his Death
and the Coronation of King Henry the Fifth
The Life of Henry the Fifth
The First Part of Henry the Sixth
The Second Part of Henry the Sixth, with the Death of the
Good Duke Humphrey
The Third Part of Henry the Sixth, with the Death of the
Duke of York
The Tragedy of Richard the Third, with the Landing of Earl
Richmond and the Battle at Bosworth Field
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
TRAGEDIES
The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
The Life of Timon of Athens
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Tragedy of King Lear
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
The Tragedy of Cymbeline
PLAYS NOT IN THE FIRST FOLIO
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, William Shakespeare and George
Wilkins
The Two Noble Kinsmen, William Shakespeare and John
Fletcher
POEMS AND SONNETS
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim
'To the Queen'
'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' (also known as 'The Phoenix
and Turtle')
Shakespeare's Sonnets
'A Lover's Complaint'
A Scene for Sir Thomas More
(introduction, transcription and modernized text by Eric
Rasmussen)
CHARTS
Shakespeare's Works: A Conjectural Chronology
The Houses of Lancaster and York: A Genealogy
Kings and Queens of England: From the History Plays to
Shakespeare's Lifetime
The History behind the Histories: A Chronology
The History behind the Tragedies: A Chronology